Original title
ブラック・ジャック
Released
10/11/2004
Origin country
JP
Genre
Animation, Drama
Production companies
Tezuka Productions
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
77
Black Jack is an "unregistered" doctor with a clouded, mysterious past. He works with his little assistant Pinoko (who has a massive crush on the doctor), dealing with medical cases not very well known, which can be strange, dangerous, or not known at all. But he is a genius, and can save almost any of his patients' life (as long as they have the money for it, that is), and is known to many around the world, especially to those of medicine and science. He's a man of science himself, and does not believe much until he has seen it, yet it is many times he is surprised by love and nature often overpowering the science he bases his life in.
Black Jack TV: Lost Episodes. This was originally from the Black Jack (2004), but weren't aired then, only later. There are two episodes in this: "The Dog Thief", and "Kamaitachi in the Woodlands". Black Jack TV specials (2003). Four Black Jack specials titled "The 4 Miracles of Life" aired in 2003. Black Jack: The Boy Who Came from the Sky (2000). This OVA was a standalone 22-minute special installment produced as an exclusive supplement for the Black Jack Limited Edition Box gift set in March 22, 2000, the story was based faithfully on the chapter story from the manga titled "The Boy Who Came from the Sky".
One day when Pinoko and Sharaku are playing by the park they encounter a scruffy dog that promptly steals Pinoko’s purse - but as they begin their pursuit, a truck hits the four-legged thief. Upset that the poor hound might die, Pinoko immediately calls for Black Jack to save the canine, but can she persuade him to let her keep her?
After one of his patients, Doctor Clonen, calls Black Jack to a remote lodge in the forest, the genius surgeon becomes caught up in a serial murder case where he himself is the prime suspect!
Akudo, the reckless juvenile delinquent son of the billionaire Nikla, crashes his sports car while driving dangerously around the streets of the city after cloth from Davy, a young tailor, obscures his windscreen when he has to jump out of the way. Nikla searches the world for a surgeon to save his severely injured son, and eventually hires Black Jack for three billion. Jack advises Nikla that his son can only be saved by using the body parts of a donor, and Nikla has Davy arrested for causing the accident and forces him to be the donor. Two months after the operation, the bandages are removed and Nikla sees his son fully recovered, however a few days later he disappears from the hospital. It is revealed that Jack actually remodelled Davy's face to look like Akudo who had actually died from his injuries. Jack then changes Davy's face again and Jack gives him the money so that he and his mother can leave the country and never have to work again.
Black Jack and Pinoko are sitting in the Tom café where Osamu Tezuka sits drinking coffee and drawing manga. Pinoko drags jack off to Sendai for an operation for the removal of a mole on a rich man's son. On the way, their car breaks down in the snow and they walk to a remote house inhabited by a talkative old woman. She is awaiting a visit from three of her four sons for her birthday, but they all notify her that they cannot come. However, Shiro, the fourth son arrives late, and explains to Jack that he was unwanted, became a delinquent and was disowned by his father, but has since become a doctor. Suddenly his mother falls with abdominal pain which Shiro suspects is long untreated appendicitis, but which Jack believes is "mobile cecum syndrome"and he operates on the old woman with Shiro assisting. They leave quietly the next morning while Shiro plans to stay and open a clinic in the village.
Dr. Wattman is the creator of the medical program, U-18 which uses computer technology to manage over 900 patients. However U-18 shuts down its operations, stating that it is ill and must be treated by Black Jack within 48 hours or it will terminate life support functions for the patients. Dr. Wattman argues that it is a machine which needs mechanical repair but the computer refuses to accept it. With only minutes to spare before the deadline, Jack arrives by helicopter, and agrees to operate for $10 million. After confirming his identity, U-18 agrees to switch its circuits off so that he can operate. Dr. Wattman tries to decommission U-18, but Jack refuses because it is his patient. After a successful operation, U-18 decides to retire, but Dr. Wattman realizes that the computer has become her daughter and they agree to run the hospital together.
While searching for a knife to cut a cake, Pinoko finds a case containing a scalpel encased in stone. Jack tells her the story of how he received it from Dr Jotaro Honma, who saved his life and inspired him to become a doctor. Years ago, in the operation which saved Jack's life, Honma accidentally left a scalpel inside Jack's body. During a second surgery, Honma extracted a stick from Jack's body which had secreted calcium to encase the scalpel, like how an oyster creates a pearl. Honma referred to it as a "miracle of life", but questioned if someone should have control over another human's life. Years later, the ageing Honma slipped into unconsciousness with cerebral softening/hemorrhage. Jack operated but could not save Honma and blamed himself for his death. In the present, Jack visits Honma's grave and considers his comment, which he thinks would make it pointless being a doctor. Back on the cape, Black Jack throws the scalpel into the ocean, proclaiming that he is a doctor.
Escaping from the Berad Republic Air Force with his wife Miguela on a stolen Lepol plane, the former Air Force Major Ivan Juric Gaganoff insists Black Jack to save the life of their son Andrei, whom he has been diagnosed with Eisenmenger's syndrome. After the hardships with Major Gaganoff constantly threatening to kill him if he doesn't cure him, Black Jack, with Pinoko's help, performs the operation on Andrei, attaching his defected blood veins and fusing them with those from his mother; regardless, Gaganoff sacrifices himself after leaving the $2,000,000 he and his wife left him to pay for the surgery, leaving behind a blood-stained cloth on Andrei's hand as a final thank you for the client and blowing himself and the plane up in the process.
This is the first animated TV series of the popular manga Black Jack. Basically, it is a faithful production of the original but some adjustments were made in the plots and depiction of surgical scenes to make them acceptable to a wider audience. Moreover, Largo, the family dog, and Sharaku and Wato Chiyoko from The Three-Eyed One join the series as regular characters.
A ferry trip goes bad, and Black Jack saves an Iriomote cat, a baby, and a politician, in that order. The politician sues, but Black Jack saves him from cancer, and he relents. Pinoko saves Sharaku from Kong, a bully, and they become friends. Then, Sharaku becomes sick and Black Jack operates on him, but a runaway gurney causes an IV needle to break off in his vein. Black Jack fails to extract the needle, but by a miracle it comes out on its own.
Black Jack attempts to find out the conspiracy, of why he was involved in the bombfield accident that killed his mother. Together with Pinoko, they circles the globe in search of clues. Along the way, he discovers the deep and dark secrets of the Organization and Project "Noir".
Black Jack is given a chance to redeem his medical license, but refuses and is arrested. During Black Jack's imprisonment, an Italian billionaire who was encountered in the other series begs Black Jack to save his grandson, knowing that Black Jack was the only doctor with the necessary talents. The head of the medical association in Japan refuses to release Black Jack despite the billionaires attempt at bribery, and the operation is taken on by Dr. White who attempts to do the operation using a robotic surgical aid. The billionaire visits Black Jack in jail and tells him of the boys miraculous recovery, but Black Jack states that the recovery was too dramatic, and the boy dies anyway. Enraged at the death of his grandson, the billionaire puts out a hit on the son of the head of the medical association. Black Jack is released from prison and ordered to save the boy.
Black Jack's father contacts him for the first time in 21 years and asks Black Jack to perform plastic surgery on his second wife. Black Jack, still holding a grudge on his father for walking out on him and his mother when they were injured in a bombing, does the surgery under the instructions to make the woman "The most beautiful woman alive." Black Jack constructs her face to look like his late mothers. After he arrives at his house, a bomb detonates, much in the same way that happened to him when he was a boy.
Pinoko, refusing to believe that Black Jack is dead, continues to try and dig through the rubble of their bombed out house. For a while, she lives in the diner owned by Black Jack's friend Tetsu, but is later adopted by a family that runs a local hospital. Pinoko still rejects her predicament, and later spots someone in a black cloak, similar to the one Black Jack wore. It is then revealed that Black Jack had survived the bomb blast thanks to help from his whale friend Torition. Black Jack went into hiding to prevent putting Pinoko in danger in case the group that was after him tried another assassination attempt, though he later comes out of hiding and takes Pinoko with him when he discovers an old picture in the clinic once owned by Dr. Honma, Black Jack's mentor.
Black Jack and Pinoko go to Europe trying to track down Dr Kreutzer, a man that Black Jack recognized in the photograph he found at Honma's clinic, which was his only lead on the people that tried to kill him. While at a hospital run by Kreutuzer, Black Jack runs into a little girl named Suzie who mistakes Black Jack for the devil because of his black clothing. Black Jack befriends the girl later and enters the hospital, where he finds out that Kreutzer was in a persistent vegetative state after a car accident. Black Jack is asked to imitate Dr. Kreutuzer and perform an operation on a cancer patient. At first Black Jack refuses, though he later accepts the job once Pinoko reveals to him that the patient he was asked to work on was the little girls mother.
After seeing him at Kreutzer's hospital, Black Jack goes after Dr. Stein, a major leading expert on prosthetic limbs and organ transplants. Black Jack also encounters a woman whom he was familiar with. He discovers that Stein was about to perform an operation that would attach an experimental robotic arm to an aspiring pianist. Black Jack fails to get any answers from Dr. Stein, but does talk to the boy who was about to receive the robotic arm. Black Jack talks to the boy that was about to receive the new arm. The boy admits that he didn't want the robotic arm which would enable him to play the piano with simple thought but would rather keep his human arm and learn to play the hard way. Black Jack saves the boys arm, and then attempts to follow Dr. Stein to England.
With the help of a woman doctor named Ayako, Black Jack attempts to reach England by riding in the Sky Hospital, a military aircraft that had been converted into a fully functioning clinic. While he is on board, a pack of rogue militants hijack the plane, interested in turning it back into a fighting craft. Though the passengers and crew of the plane resist the terrorists, one of them detonates a stun grenade in the cockpit. The pilots and one of the terrorists are badly injured by shrapnel generated by the grenade, and the plane itself begins losing fuel. Black Jack and the planes owner, Dr. White, are forced to try and save the lives of the injured people and safely land the damaged Sky Hospital.
Black Jack and Pinoco go to a middle eastern town after leaving the damaged Sky Hospital. While there, Black Jack is arrested and accused of murder. He is cleared of the charges thanks to a Japanese businessman named Aritani. Black Jack makes an agreement with Aritani, saying that he would repay the favor. Later, Aritani is convinced to take the fall for his company which was funneling money illegally. After claiming to be responsible for the dirty play, Aritani is thrown in front of a train in an assassination attempt disguised as a murder. Desperate to save Aritani's life, Black Jack uses some of his savings to buy out the hospital Aritani was being kept at after he inspires the proper owner with his determination. Black Jack saves Aritani and receives his first real lead on the group after his life.
Black Jack finally arrives in England to hear of a man who's been in a coma, unaged, for 65 years. Dr. Stein wants to analyse him to find out why he hasn't aged, thinking it will give them information about eternal youth; but the patient's niece has hired Kiriko to put an end to it. Black Jack operates, but afterwards the patient ages and dies upon finding out that his family had died.
Black Jack and Pinoko travel to New York. A doctor who happens to be the son of an old friend of Black Jack's parents, asks Black Jack to help him operate on his mother because she has Honma's Hematoma. Black Jack, remembering his mentor's words not to get involved in that disease, refuses. Later, Black Jack discovers the clock that was in the photo he found. Benitokage shows up and shoots Black Jack in the heart.
Black Jack is alive because his mother, Mio's pendant stopped the bullet from hitting him. He operates on the doctor's mother and discovers a Type Hydra artificial heart. It is a heart that keeps on pumping even when it is extracted from the host. They replaced the Type Hydra with another artificial heart that Black Jack requested and saved her life. They discover that the Type Hydra was designed by Hazama Kagemitsu, Black Jack's father through a microfiche that was inside Mio's pendant. The doctor's mother tells Black Jack how his parents met and how she got the artificial heart.
Black Jack arrives at the cottege that Dr. Jorujyu was living in but gets shot at by the Dr's daughter. The brother was out to kill the Dr. But does not succeed. Dr. Jorujyu has the phoenix disease and dies from it.
Black Jack is now in Canada. He goes into the mountains to find Dr. Jorujyu's research lab. The Lady that has been trying to kill him was injured and he decided to helper. An avalanche suddenly happens and traps all three of them in the cellar. The document that he finally finds, that was about the phoenix disease, ends up being lost in the snow.
Black Jack and Pinoko run into Sharaku when they arrive in Africa. They meet a boy named Al.
Black Jack and Pinoko arrive into Okonja Village on a helicopter. However, many villagers have already died from various diseases. Black Jack persuades the reluctant pilot to fly further towards Arnol Village.
Black Jack is called by Renka, he thinks that about his father but she says she want him to stay and be a family, but Renka's daughter thinks Black Jack is after his father's fortune. When about operating on his father, the organization henchmen kidnap Pinoko and lure him in a trap, in which he gives up the pendant. Benitokage appears and saves the day, apparently because one of the Organization knocks Black Jack and then he awakes to meet Zen Mantoku the former leader. He tells that the reason of his father to leave Black Jack and his mother was to protect them from the Organization (meaning the bomb that near killed Black Jack was a plot of the organization) it is revealed who Benitokage is, and then both of them work together to escape. At the end Black Jack is aimed with a Sniper Rifle in which Benitokage saves his life using her.
Black Jack is ready to go Japan with Pinoko when is requested to go to the Sky Hospital and check on Zen Mantoku who has Phoenix Disease, by a direct request of Dr. White & Renka. Black Jack agrees in performing the operation with Dr. White. Renka secretly plots to get the Disease cure so she can win much money when she spreades Phoenix disease. One of Renka's henchmen tries to hijack the Hospital and by that Mantoku gets out of the Capsule causing the Phoenix Disease to spread among the aircraft. Now Black Jack has to face the Phoenix Disease to save Pinoko and the others lives.
Black Jack tells Dr. White to change course to the North Pole, meanwhile Renka start her plan in getting the Phoenix Disease. Later the Sky Hospital receives a call from the US Alaska base, and are told that Doctors from all the world are trying to find the cure to the Phoenix Disease, one of them being Dr. Kuma revealing that they only have 21 hours to cure or die. The National Security manager is told that they are going to launch a Nuclear Missile to rid of the Virus and as well of those ill from it. Renka gets on the Sky Hospital. Just before Renka about to shot Black Jack, her father interfere, they both shot each other, Zen Mantoku died and Renka injured badly, Black Jack decided to operate Renka, anyway. When operating Renka Black Jack finds the cure to the Phoenix Disease. The missile has been shot without any way to making it to don't crash on North Pole. While the Phoenix Disease continues to spread in Black Jack's body, he questions himself why he is saving Renka's life.
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